I am finally starting to relax a bit, just in time for the
work week to start again. I went to an interesting
nightclub on Saturday with a couple of cow orkers and one of
my roommates, and I've just been outside in Golden Gate Park
(not far from my house) observing some spirited matches of
chess and go.

Why am I here?

I think I remember seeing this in one of Deb
Richardson's
entries, and I thought I'd expand on it with regard to why I
decided to get onto Advogato. I think that I became
interested in Advogato primarily because of the diary
feature, and I'm impressed by the way people use the diaries
not only for things like "I hacked on this part of this
project today" but for more personal stuff as well.
Additionally, I've seen people using diary entries as
another form of communication, in addition to posting
comments to an article or posting an article. I've always
found diaries really fascinating, and I think Advogato
encourages people to keep them. I think that the open
source movement is at a really interesting time in its
history right now, and that it would be fascinating to go
back and read some of these diaries in a few months/years.

San Francisco

It's great to be able to haphazardly stumble upon cherry
blossom festivals, really great cheap Japanese food, and
cool anime DVDs. Sometimes I question why I came to
California, and then I have experiences with places or
people that remind me why I'm here.

mbp

I'm flattered by the comparison :)

Anoles

To perpetuate the anole meme: I have three anoles, Stumpy,
Veronica, and Mr. Man. Stumpy was the victim of an
unfortunate accident early in my anole-keeping career, Mr.
Man goes around extending his throat flap at the female
anoles, and Veronica is....Veronica :) They are the reason
that my Linuxcare cow orkers see me wandering around the
halls muttering "Crap, I need to get crickets" to myself.